Motiș (Sibiu)
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Motiș Mortesdorf Marton Carnation |
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 Romania
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| Historical region : | Transylvania | ||||
| Circle : | Sibiu | ||||
| Municipality : | Valea Viilor | ||||
| Coordinates : | 46 ° 4 ' N , 24 ° 20' E | ||||
| Time zone : | EET ( UTC +2) | ||||
| Height : | 390 m | ||||
| Residents : | 582 (2002) | ||||
| Postal code : | 557291 | ||||
| Telephone code : | (+40) 02 69 | ||||
| License plate : | SB | ||||
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| Community type : | Village | ||||
Motiș ( German Mortesdorf , Hungarian Mártontelke ) is a village in Sibiu County in Transylvania , Romania . It is part of the municipality of Valea Viilor ( wormhole ).
The place is also known under the earlier Romanian names Motișdorf and Motișul , the German Märtesdorf and Mertesdorf and the Hungarian Martontelke .
location
The place Motiș is located on the upper reaches of the Vorumloc River in a southern side valley of the Târnava Mare ( Great Kokel ). In the northeast of Sibiu County, in a hilly landscape of the Kokel Valley on the county road ( Drum județean ) DJ 142G, the place is 5.5 km from the municipality of Valea Viilor , 21 km from Mediaș ( Mediasch ); the district capital Sibiu ( Hermannstadt ) is located about 60 kilometers southwest of Motiș.
history
The first mention of Mortesdorf (under Villa Morteni ) comes from the year 1319. This document says that the place Mortesdorf was owned by the Saxon counts Niklaus and Johann von Talmisch. In 1415 Mortesdorf was called "Gemeinde Martin", the first sole German name for this place. The aristocratic Hörigendorf was able to free itself from serfdom in 1848.
population
At the 1850 census, 747 people lived in Mortesdorf. 603 of them were Germans , 104 Romanians , four Hungarians and 36 Roma . The highest population (1,092) was reached in 1956, that of the Germans (858) in 1966, the Romanians (546) in 2002 and that of the Roma (36) in 1850.
Mortesdorf was a village that was mainly inhabited by Transylvanian Saxons for several centuries . These made up the majority of the village population until the 1980s, before Romanians and Roma have almost always lived here since the mass emigration of the Transylvanian Saxons. 2006 only one Transylvanian-Saxon resident lived in Motiș.
Attractions
The fortified church of Mortesdorf is a late Gothic towerless hall church, which is mentioned for the first time in the church records in 1497. The choir (9 × 5.3 m) and the nave (17.4 × 7.3 m) have separate roof trusses. A vestibule was built in front of the west portal, the upper floor of which houses the organ bellows. The number 1718 is noted on the pointed gable of the west portal (this is most likely the year of renovation). The baroque altar, built in 1791, is made of wood and rests on a brick table. The main picture shows Jesus with John and Mary. On both sides of the main picture are two round columns with a Corinthian column top. The pairs of columns form a niche on each side, each with an apostle figure. On the right is Paul with the sword of faith, on the left Peter (with a broken hand). There is an angel over each pillar. An upper image represents the resurrection, above it the eye of God. The fortified church is a listed building.
literature
- Michael Lösch: Mortesdorf. A Transylvanian-Saxon community on Adelsboden in the context of its folk history. Self-published by HOG Mortesdorf, sl 1997.
Web links
- Web presentation of the hometown community Mortesdorfs
- Mortesdorf at sevenbuerger.de
- Information and pictures about Mortesdorf, under mortesdorf.info
Individual evidence
- ^ Dictionary of localities from Transylvania
- ↑ a b History of Mortesdorf on Siebenbürger.de Orte, accessed on March 9, 2010
- ↑ Census, last updated November 4, 2008, p. 83 (Hungarian; PDF; 596 kB)
- ↑ List of historical monuments of the Romanian Ministry of Culture, updated 2010, accessed on February 8, 2013 ( Memento of the original from June 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. PDF 7.10 MB
